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vintage 1920s fragrance Zoria by Vallant's. Art Deco perfume bottle from Oregon

$ 20.06

Availability: 47 in stock
  • Condition: Used

    Description

    Here is an antique flask-shaped glass bottle that contained Zoria, a fragrance by Vallant's. Vallant's, also known as Vallant, was a brand of perfume that was distributed by Blumauer-Frank Drug Company, a drugstore based in Portland, Oregon.
    I have been able to find a couple of old newspaper ads from the year 1920 that mention Zoria.  Below is the website address for one of those ads if you'd like to take a look. eBay doesn't allow sellers to put hyperlinks in their item descriptions, but by copying pasting the web address into your browser, you'll be able to see the ad, which comes from the archives of a local university library:
    https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn00063661/1920-12-16/ed-1/seq-9/#words=Zoria
    The bottle that I have has a late Art Nouveau or early Art Deco look, and so it probably dates to around the time that newspaper ad was published. The bottle stands
    4 and 5/8ths inches tall, 2 and 7/8ths inches wide, and 1 and 1/4 inches thick from front to back. The two gold and green paper labels are in pretty good condition with just a little bit of wear and fading. The oval frosted glass stopper is embossed with a delicate-looking floral pattern on top. The mouth of the bottle has one very small chip, as shown in the eleventh photo.
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